Baby Boomers: 1943 - 1960/Prophet This is the genration that came of age in the '60s and '70s during the Kennedy assassination, Civil Rights movement, Vietnam War, hippies, "Summer of Love", Moon landing, Woodstock, Days of Rage on college campuses, and Watergate.  Are generally desribed as idealistic, lovers of individual freedom who are inner driven and moralistic about worldly affairs.  My parents are both second wave Boomers.

Generation X: 1961 - 1981/Nomad The post-Boomer generation that came of age in the '80s and '90s with the Reagan era, Challenger explosion, fall of Berlin Wall, Persian Gulf War, economic recession, and grunge rock.  Are generally described as individualistic, cynical of world affairs, alienated from Boomer culture, and often negatively stereotyped as "slackers" (i.e. Beavis and Butthead, Beck's "Loser").  My sister is a mid wave Gen Xer.

Generation Y: 1982 - 2003/Hero Otherwise known as the Millennial Generation or "Echo-Boomers" for being mostly the Boomers' kids.  Is coming of age now in the new millennium with Election 2000, 9-11 terrorist attacks, War on Terror, and Iraq War.  Are generally described as optimistic, teamplayers among peers, less inclined to enage in promiscous sexual activity than their Boomer and Gen Xer elders and more likely to put off sex until marriage or wait for someone "special".  Often stereotyped as South Park idiots or wholesome pre-teen lovers of boy bands and pop princesses.  I myself am a first wave Gen Yer but don't know if I fit the collective personality I just described.

Generation Z: 2004 - 2025/Artist The generation being born now, mostly the Gen Xers' kids.  Are expected to be much like the Silent Generation that is now in old age in character and personality.  will come of age in the decades of the 2020s and 2030s and will grow up in a volitile environment of terror threats, possible nuclear or biological attacks in America that will scar them the same way Silent children were scarred by Great Depression, WWII, and later the nuclear threat of the Cold War.  My kids will most likely belong to this generation if I ever have any.

Generation X; though I must tell you that this Generation ends at 1977 as a birth year. I was born in 1976 and have absolutely nothing in common with those born in the 80s. Sorry.

Tanya

According to this, I am Generation X (born in 1965). But there should add another one, called Generation P-on. That names my generation better. ::)

generation x. i always thought the baby boomer generation started after WW2 and ended in '65. gen xers came about from '66 to '75. to qualify as a gen xer, you had to have been a teenager in the 80s. i always read something different.

Good question, it does sound confusing. Since I was born in 1976, I would say Generation X, since I was a teenage during the 90's I would say Generation Y. Like I said before, sounds confusing.

I was born in 1960....I remember the Beatles very well from age 5 as I had to older sisters constantly playing them :) I loved the 70's and even part of the 80's. I stopped buying records in 1990, though I still burn some new stuff once in a while. I'd redefine my generation as 1963-1979

Baby Boomers: 1943 - 1960/Prophet



Actually, the Baby Boomers are from 1946 (the end of WWII) and 1963 or 1964 by some charts.


I AM A BABY BOOMER  And d@m proud of it.



Cat

lol, the answers above are funny and a bit confusing to me. Fact is, we were all born :D

I believe that I'm a cusper because I was born smack dab in the middle of the 1980s (1985).
The funny thing is that I remember quite a bit of the second half of the 80s.

I'm Degeneration X! ;D(born 1974)


Howard

Generation Y (Though I'm more into the '90's, and past decades, than the 2000's  8))

1969--Gen X all the way.  I never liked the moniker "Generation X."  The Baby Boom ended in 1964 and was followed by the "Baby Bust."  The Baby Boom generation call themselves "Boomers," so can we of the Baby Bust call ourselves "Busters"?
:D

  Same here, 1969...

  The term "Generation X" has something to do with Billy Idol's former group, doesn't it..?

1969 as well  ;)

as far as i know the term "Generation X" was around before the band Gen-X/Generation X(i still have their albums by the way from my Billy Idol stage in the early-mid 80s)

1969 as well  ;)

as far as i know the term "Generation X" was around before the band Gen-X/Generation X(i still have their albums by the way from my Billy Idol stage in the early-mid 80s)

I believe the term "Generation X" predated the band, nonetheless, I loathe the idea of an entire generation being associated with Billy Idol!
:P

I was under the impression that Douglas Coupland was responsible for using the term in regards to an age-bracket in his novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, this came out in, I believe 1991 (or so). 

Billy Idol was using the same term in the late 70's with his band, however he said he got the name of the group from a 1960's paperback book about mods and rockers in the UK, although no one has been able to locate this book...



I believe the term "Generation X" predated the band, nonetheless, I loathe the idea of an entire generation being associated with Billy Idol!
:P

I was under the impression that Douglas Coupland was responsible for using the term in regards to an age-bracket in his novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, this came out in, I believe 1991 (or so). 

Billy Idol was using the same term in the late 70's with his band, however he said he got the name of the group from a 1960's paperback book about mods and rockers in the UK, although no one has been able to locate this book...




There were zillions of pulp paperbacks for newsstands and drugstores back then.  It doesn't surprise me that no one's been able to locate a copy.  They were quite ephemeral.  Then again, Idol might be misrembering.  It could have been just a magazine article or something.

I'm an X being born in 64, I too thought 64 would be the first year of the Xers since if you count back, my mom born in 46, 9 months almost to the day my Grandfather got back from Europe and me 18 years later, the first of the Xers no?

Generation X; though I must tell you that this Generation ends at 1977 as a birth year. I was born in 1976 and have absolutely nothing in common with those born in the 80s. Sorry.

Tanya

I was gonna go with Generation X, since my birth year is 1980, but given this info, does that fall in the Gen Y range? ???

Actually, the Baby Boomers are from 1946 (the end of WWII) and 1963 or 1964 by some charts.


I AM A BABY BOOMER  And d@m proud of it.



Cat


Me Too!, I always though 64 was the last year of baby boomers, which would make me one of the youngest being born in Oct. 64.

Me Too!, I always though 64 was the last year of baby boomers, which would make me one of the youngest being born in Oct. 64.



Yup-I'm one of the last too. All my life I have always gotten along better with older people-then I figured out why-I am part of their generation. Hubby used to claim that I wasn't a Baby Boomer until I PROVED that I was. All my siblings (born between 51-60) are Baby Boomers and I asked him, "Aren't I in the same generation as my siblings?" He couldn't argue with that.  ;D



Cat

I was gonna go with Generation X, since my birth year is 1980, but given this info, does that fall in the Gen Y range? ???


Yup!

Tanya

Born 1970 - Gen X

Big time Boomer-1951 -been there, done that, had fun, like it just where I am now :)

I'd have to go with Generation Y since I was a kid in the 90s and, now, a teenager in the 00s - I turned 13 in 2000. However, I seem to have nothing in common with the kids born in the 90s, as far as pop culture is concerned.

I'd have to go with Generation Y since I was a kid in the 90s and, now, a teenager in the 00s - I turned 13 in 2000. However, I seem to have nothing in common with the kids born in the 90s, as far as pop culture is concerned.


True. Not everybody  have to follow or like current trends from their generation.  8)

Personally, I don't take these  labels (Gen X, Gen Y) seriously.

I'm tail end Gen Xer that was born in 1975.  Damn proud of it too.

I don't have much in common with people born in the 80s either.  Well, maybey I can relate to some people born in the early 80s, but most everyone else born in the 80s and part of the Gen Y crowd have different tastes and opinions from my own.

Me Too!, I always though 64 was the last year of baby boomers, which would make me one of the youngest being born in Oct. 64.


October '64 here too  :)

Probably generation Y. I was born in 1987.

Oooh !  This was a thread when i first joined the board a few years ago.  :D

I will give the same answer, although more calmly this time.  ;)

I was born in 1961 and there is NO WAY I regard myself as being Generation X, or anything resembling it....  :o

Not that I am implying there is anything wrong with Gen X, I just always regarded myself as a Baby Boomer.  Gen X is a term I have always associated with technology, and I remember seeing precious little of that until the mid 70's

:)

I was born in 1969 so presumably that makes me an X

Generation X - born in 1971  :)

I was born in 1983. Am I Generation X or Y?

1969--Gen X all the way.  I never liked the moniker "Generation X."  The Baby Boom ended in 1964 and was followed by the "Baby Bust."  The Baby Boom generation call themselves "Boomers," so can we of the Baby Bust call ourselves "Busters"?
:D
???What if they're male?

I was born in 1983. Am I Generation X or Y?


Y

Tanya

born in 1974.Generation x


Howard

I am a generation x'er

Generation Z: 2004 - 2025/Artist The generation being born now, mostly the Gen Xers' kids.  Are expected to be much like the Silent Generation that is now in old age in character and personality.  will come of age in the decades of the 2020s and 2030s and will grow up in a volitile environment of terror threats, possible nuclear or biological attacks in America that will scar them the same way Silent children were scarred by Great Depression, WWII, and later the nuclear threat of the Cold War.  My kids will most likely belong to this generation if I ever have any.


Hello!  Isn't Generation Z began in 1999.

I was born in 1983. Am I Generation X or Y?


You're an older member of Gen Y.  But you're Gen Y neverthless, not X.

You're an older member of Gen Y.  But you're Gen Y neverthless, not X.

What comes after Generation Z?  Do we go to Generation A?

Generation Y.. Born in 89, remember the 90s very much, 00s are okay, have an interest in the 70s and 80s.

late Baby Boomer(1960).....grew up watching stuff like the Vietnam war...the Ed Sullivan Show....the Gemini AND Apollo space missions INCLUDING the first manned Moon landing...and of course played 'first generation'home video games such as PONG....I remember when NBC had the Peacock before every show.....

What comes after Generation Z?  Do we go to Generation A?


Beats me.  I'm not a demographic guy.  And people don't even follow United States (you have people in France calling themselves Gen X or Gen Y) birth rates or anything like that anymore, this seems to have transcended itself and is defined mostly by pop cultural issues first and foremost, with political and world events after that.  There is one thing though.  Gen Y is a different generation from Xers, but they really are not a "full generation away" from Gen X the way we were from the Baby Boomers.  My parents are traditional aged Baby Boomers.  Most Boomers with the exception of the really young ones born in the early 60s are old enough to be my parents too.  When I think "Baby Boomer" I immediately start thinking of my parents generation.  

But I'm not old enough to be the father of most of these Gen Y kids.  Some of the older Gen Xers obviously would be, but most of us born in the '70s weren't old enough to be these kids parents.  Well maybey biologicaly a few of them, if I started having kids in middle school back in the late 80s.  Or mabyey when I was in high school in the early 1990s.  But still, I'd be a super young dad to them at age 29.   

I was born in 1990, so I'm generation Y.

I'd like to be in generation Z 'cos I wanna know my future!!!!!

Beats me.  I'm not a demographic guy.  And people don't even follow United States (you have people in France calling themselves Gen X or Gen Y) birth rates or anything like that anymore, this seems to have transcended itself and is defined mostly by pop cultural issues first and foremost, with political and world events after that.  There is one thing though.  Gen Y is a different generation from Xers, but they really are not a "full generation away" from Gen X the way we were from the Baby Boomers.  My parents are traditional aged Baby Boomers.  Most Boomers with the exception of the really young ones born in the early 60s are old enough to be my parents too.  When I think "Baby Boomer" I immediately start thinking of my parents generation.  

But I'm not old enough to be the father of most of these Gen Y kids.  Some of the older Gen Xers obviously would be, but most of us born in the '70s weren't old enough to be these kids parents.  Well maybey biologicaly a few of them, if I started having kids in middle school back in the late 80s.  Or mabyey when I was in high school in the early 1990s.  But still, I'd be a super young dad to them at age 29.   


Not necessarily true. I'm a Gen Xer (1976) and the mother of a soon to be six year old son (this Thursday). By definition, he's late Gen Y (1998), though I thought it would be after that one. I was 22 when he was born.

Tanya

Generation X here.  I was born in 1971...and was a wee child during the disco craze...and a teenager of the '80s.  8)

Generation X here.  :)

X

I was born in 1970

Labels are labels - whatever... 

...was that cynical?  8)


Vayle

Baby Boomers: 1943 - 1960


The reason Baby Boomer generation begins in 1943 is because that is 9 months to a year after the first waves of troops began returning to the States after being deployed overseas for WWII.

Quite literally the last Baby Boomers were born on May 6, 1946.  Nine months after VJ Day. ;)

Oh. . .

Generation X (born in the late 60s)  :P

Born 1990.  Gen Y  :)

My opinion on the matter:

Baby boom: 1946-1964
Gen X: 1965-1979
Gen Y: 1980-1994
Gen Z: 1995-present

I'm a Gen Y (1989).  Although that description sounds like porbably about only 10% of the people I know, maybe less.  I can see defining Gen Xers or Baby Boomers, but my generation really hasn't manifested yet, IMHO... I think it's silly :D.

Generation Bowling For Soup
1985!

Generation Y, born in 1988. But my dad is a boomer(born in 48) and my mom too(56), an I'd say my attitude and likes are more akin to a Boomer than someone of my generation, or even an X'er. Its weird having a generation gap with people your own age, but I do. I was raised by Boomers and I assimilated more to their beleifs/habits then to my peers.

My parents are boomers too, but close to Gen X.  My attitude is prolly more boomer too.  I'm pretty liberal politically and not very angry.

gen y cause i was born in 1988 but i don't like a lot of the things that come out today it's not what it was back in the 90's

Born in '87 so I'm Generation Y.

Generation Strange  ;D.. or Y

Gen X

I'm Generation Y....as so elegantly displayed in my screen name. And I know it's chic and all to look down on Gen-Y on this forum...but to tell you the truth, I'm proud of my generation.....It has just as much good and bad as the generations past and the ones in the future....

And I know it's chic and all to look down on Gen-Y on this forum...


Really  ???.. I failed to notice